Doctor Brodie's Report

Doctor Brodie's Report PDF Author: Jorge Luis Borges
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ISBN: 9780140180275
Category : Spanish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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Doctor Brodie's Report

Doctor Brodie's Report PDF Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140180275
Category : Spanish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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Brodie's Report

Brodie's Report PDF Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie’s Report, he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed. Many of these stories, including “Unworthy” and “The Other Duel,” are set in the macho Argentinean underworld, and even the rivalries between artists are suffused with suppressed violence. Throughout, opposing themes of fate and free will, loyalty and betrayal, time and memory flicker in the recesses of these compelling stories, among the best Borges ever wrote. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie PDF Author: Muriel Spark
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453245030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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“A perfect book”—and basis for the Maggie Smith film—about a teacher who makes a lasting impression on her female students in the years before World War II (Chicago Tribune). “Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!” So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and sometimes comic teacher at the conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. Brodie selects six favorite pupils to mold—and she doesn’t stop with just their intellectual lives. She has a plan for them all, including how they will live, whom they will love, and what sacrifices they will make to uphold her ideals. When the girls reach adulthood and begin to find their own destinies, Jean Brodie’s indelible imprint is a gift to some, and a curse to others. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Spark’s masterpiece, a novel that offers one of twentieth-century English literature’s most iconic and complex characters—a woman at once admirable and sinister, benevolent and conniving. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Muriel Spark including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s archive at the National Library of Scotland.

Doctor Brodie's Report

Doctor Brodie's Report PDF Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher: Plume Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Written in the 1960s, these eleven stories examine the effects of the unbearable, the sinister, and the inevitable as those forces alter the courses of several lives

The Devil's Mistress

The Devil's Mistress PDF Author: J W Brodie Innes
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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The Devil's Mistress by J.W. Brodie-Innes is about young Isabelle Goudie married to boring old John Gilbert. Isabelle attempts to find love, excitement, and meaning in her life. Excerpt: "IF the story which follows were to be regarded as a work of imagination, it might justly be characterized as too wildly fanciful to deserve even serious consideration. But it is not this: it is an attempt to portray exactly one of the most curious phases of belief or superstition that ever passed over this country, the witchcraft, namely, of the latter part of the seventeenth century."

Trial of Deacon Brodie

Trial of Deacon Brodie PDF Author: William Roughead
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trials
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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The Book of Mackay

The Book of Mackay PDF Author: Angus MacKay
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 587912293X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 543

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The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad PDF Author: WHITEHEAD C.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Underground Railroad (Television program : 2021)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Diviners

The Diviners PDF Author: Libba Bray
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316214647
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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A young woman discovers her mysterious powers could help catch a killer in the first book of The Diviners series--a stunning supernatural historical mystery set in 1920s New York City, from Printz Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray. Evangeline O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and sent off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult. Evie worries he'll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. When the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer. As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfurl in the city that never sleeps. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened....

Annie John

Annie John PDF Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780812473391
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Annie John grows from a precocious, fearless, ten-year-old living in a Caribbean paradise into a young woman who realizes she must leave Antigua to escape her mother's shadow.